{"id":9396,"date":"2017-10-06T01:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T05:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2019-07-10T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:10:00","slug":"9396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/10\/06\/9396\/","title":{"rendered":"At the CSGV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday, my class met with members of&nbsp;the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. In light of&nbsp;the Las Vegas shooting, reflecting on this meeting&nbsp;makes me more considerate of what was said. We discussed the gun lobby&nbsp;and how most gun deaths\u2014almost half\u2014result from suicide rather than murder or accident.&nbsp;While I wanted to listen, I had to remain cautious because of my first impression\u2014two members of their group denigrating the ideas of the National Rifle Association. I understand the groups see each other as rivals, but the open hostility made me doubt&nbsp;the CSGV&#8217;s professionalism. Fortunately, I found its representatives much more open to opposing points of view, regarding gun ownership and Second Amendment rights, as the meeting went on.&nbsp;The group made good points\u2014gun laws need significant improvement for rates of gun death to drop\u2014but I couldn&#8217;t help feeling the issue would never go away until&nbsp;guns were either accessible&nbsp;to all or banned completely. Until then, neither side has a reason to quit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday, my class met with members of&nbsp;the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. In light of&nbsp;the Las Vegas shooting, reflecting on this meeting&nbsp;makes me more considerate of what was said. We discussed the gun lobby&nbsp;and how most gun deaths\u2014almost half\u2014result from suicide rather than murder or accident.&nbsp;While I wanted to listen, I had to remain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":9397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14633,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions\/14633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}